JERUSALEM — When President Bush kicked off renewed Middle East peace talks last fall, he made it clear that any lasting deal would depend upon the ability of Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make daily life better.

Today, the Bush administration’s newest Middle East envoy is scheduled to hold his first joint meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to get an update — and it’s not likely to inspire confidence.

Since Bush launched his diplomatic initiative at a summit in Annapolis, Md., in November, there has been little progress by either side on meeting administration benchmarks.

Semimonthly peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have been postponed in wake of a surge in violence.

Hamas hard-liners still control the Gaza Strip.

And the Bush administration is heading into its final stretch, with its power and influence flickering out.

“I don’t see anything moving,” said Uri Dromi, a former spokesman for the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

In Annapolis, the Bush administration officials made their formula clear: For peace talks to gain traction, Israel had to remove illegal settlements from the West Bank and scale back its network of roadblocks there. The Palestinians, Bush said, had to crack down on rogue militants in the West Bank and establish law and order.

Bush named Army Lt. Gen. William Fraser to head the administration’s oversight of those goals. He’s to meet with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Friday, then brief Bush officials.

Since Annapolis, however, Israel has approved the construction of hundreds of homes in Arab East Jerusalem and the surrounding West Bank, and has made no headway in meeting another road map obligation: dismantling at least two dozen smaller, illegal West Bank settlements.

Israel also has added more roadblocks throughout the West Bank.

One of the biggest obstacles facing the Palestinians is the Gaza Strip.

Israeli leaders have warned that Gaza and its Hamas leaders could face a major military crackdown if they don’t stop firing crude rockets into southern Israel.

On Thursday, a brief, tenuous calm ended when Gaza militants fired their first sustained rocket attacks in nearly a week. The resumption came in response to overnight Israeli military raids in the West Bank that led to the deaths of five Palestinian militants, including prominent leaders of Islamic Jihad, the militant group responsible for much of the rocket fire from Gaza.

In response to the renewed rocket attacks, Israel resumed airstrikes on Gaza targets.